Stacey ChildressCEO

February 1, 2015NewSchools Venture Fund

P-12

Business of education

Charter schools

Education technology

Leadership and governance

Stacey Childress is the CEO at NewSchools Venture Fund.
Previously, Childress led the K-12 Next Generation Learning team
at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, investing in schools and
technologies that support personalized learning for middle and
high school students in the U.S. Prior to joining the foundation,
Childress was on the faculty of the Harvard Business School,
where she wrote and taught about entrepreneurial activity in
public education. During her time at Harvard she wrote three
books and more than 30 cases and articles about education
entrepreneurship. She also won teaching awards from her students
and the dean for her elective course on education
entrepreneurship, which was taken by nearly 1,000 students
between 2004 and 2010. Before working in academia, Childress was
a co-founder of an enterprise software company and also spent 10
years in a Fortune 500 company in sales and general management.
Early in her career, she taught in a Texas public high school.
She is a graduate of Baylor University and Harvard Business
School. In 2012, she was named one of Forbes
Magazine’s Impact 15, a group of innovators revolutionizing
education in the U.S. and around the world.